“You get anything on Ram yet?” Bobby asked.
Barbara’s kidnapping attempt and killing those responsible was the only thing on his mind. Although Bobby was glad that Tahanee killed him, there was a huge part of him that would love to take his time and torture Ram slowly over a week or two before he killed him. He glanced at Black and knew he’d be happy to help.
“His real name is Ramses Earl,” Carla replied.
“Anybody know anything about this nigga?” Bobby demanded to know.
“I talked to RJ,” Carter began. “He said that Ram is a low-level dealer for Hawkins. He got a couple of corners and a house he does business at. Strictly small time, I doubt if this was his play. Too ambitious a move.”
Bobby pointed at Carter. “Fuck what you doubt, make sure!”
“I got you, Bobby.”
“They’re fuckin’ with my family!” he shouted.
“If they want to play it like that and bring civilians into it, that’s fine by me,” Rain said nodding her head. Doc’s murder and now Barbara’s kidnaping attempt had pushed her to a new level. She looked at Jackie. “Start making me a list of high value targets.”
“You got it,” Jackie said quickly. She had lost a lot of good people in this war, so she was happy to step it up and take it to them.
“I’m not comfortable with that,” Black said shaking his head. “I’m just as mad about what happened to Barbara, and I want to hurt them for it. But terrorizing and murdering innocent people.” Black shook his head slowly. “We are not gonna do that.”
Black looked around the room, but he stopped and looked directly at Rain.
“I understand the need to escalate, Rain, and it just may come to that, but we are not there yet,” Black said and then he looked at Jackie. “Go ahead and make your list. But it only gets used when I say so.” Black looked around the room again. “Does everybody understand what I’m sayin’?”
He received a chorus of, “Understood.”
“Okay. Now, Carla, tell us how to get in place and kill these bastards.”
At that moment, there was a lot of activity in the building on Manida Street. Barnes and Hawkins had just acquired new product from their supplier, so security was high. The building was outfitted with the latest surveillance and security technology.
Naturally, there were digital cameras everywhere in the building, but audio surveillance equipment, and signal tracking technologies were in use as well. To secure sensitive areas, laser microphones were used to bounce sound waves off a hard surface which was reflected back to the transmitter that sets off an alarm.
Tiny radio frequency ID tags were placed on the workers clothes. Each tag transmitted a unique signal, so their location was tracked while in the building. There were motion and heat sensors in the hallways and biometric locks on all the doors. None of that was a problem for Carla.
“Easy peasy.”
Antoine, Malik, Janile and Dennard were outside the building. Janile and Dennard were posted on each corner, while Antoine and Malik were in the front of the building. Antoine was stationed at the entrance to the garage and Malik was standing guard at the main entrance to the building.
Inside the building, Cameron and Jayden were in the garage, while Caleb and Tyler were near the stairs leading to the second level. Barnes and Hawkins were on the second level along with Cornia, Dallan and the product. Everybody was on alert.
“We could really use Monika to take out the one’s outside on the corners,” Black said when they arrived.
“I can do it, Black,” Jackie said, and everybody looked at her. “What?” she paused. “I may not be as good as Monika or Xavier, but I can hit a target from five hundred yards away. Monika used to make me practice at a thousand yards to make me a much better marksman at three to five hundred yards,” Jackie said with confidence. “I think I can take out four stationary targets from across the street.”
“Let me know when you’re set,” Black said, and Jackie turned to Rain.
“You still carry that Barrett M82 rifle in your trunk?”
“I got you. Come on,” Rain said and led her back to her car to get the rifle from the trunk. Then Jackie went to find a position on the rooftop across the street where she had a direct line of sight to her four targets.
While she moved into position, Bobby and Carter took up position on the corner to be ready to move Janile and Dennard’s bodies off the street. Black and Rain would take care of Antoine and Malik.
Once Jackie arrived at what she determined to be the best position to hit all four of her targets, she set up her weapon and checked the wind. “I’m set.”
“Fire,” Black ordered.
Jackie fired four shots in rapid succession, hitting each of her targets with a shot to the head. Antoine, Malik, Janile and Dennard went down.